Goodbye, Sneezy! FRAM Fresh Breeze® Cabin Air Filter Made It Easy!

No, one of them is not chocolate. (Although that is a good guess!) I always have my phone, and I always, *always* have tissues.

We are an allergy family. One of us is always sneezing and pawing at our itchy and watery eyes. That’s just how we roll. We do a lot of things to help in our home, but one place we’ve found to be the worst for sneezing and general allergy irritation is in the car.

If you’ve ever taken a car ride with me and my sneezing bunch it would not surprise you to learn that the air inside a car can be six times dirtier than outside air. EW! Even though we never, EVER open the windows because of our allergy issues, allergens and dust come right in through the vents and then recirculate all around the cabin.

To make matters worse, not only are we combating pollen in our neck of the woods, one of our main thoroughfares is undergoing major construction. We travel those dusty roads at least 32 times a day…and that’s a lowball estimate. Sometimes I can even see dust settling around the car as we’re driving. It’s all just coming right in the vent. Yuck!

We’re so sneezy, I had to designate the main storage area in my minivan for a tissue box. It’s annoying, but necessary for my crew.

So when BlogHer contacted us to try out a product called the FRAM Fresh Breeze® Cabin Air Filter, I felt like the clouds (of dust) parted, and I heard a choir of angels singing. Would I like to try something that could improve the air quality in my car? Um, Yes!! Yes, I would! (Especially when it filters out 98% of dirt, dust, and allergens using ARM & HAMMER® baking soda to remove odors, too!!) Count me in!

Then I noticed there were installation instructions. OH, NO!

I was worried. You see, I’m not exactly known for my mechanical acumen. It took me three months to work up the nerve to change out my microwave light bulb when it burned out. I was skeptical that I’d be up to the installation process. I don’t even own a ratchet set!

But I love my kids (and tissues aren’t cheap, people), so I decided to give it a whirl.

When I got the filter, the instructions actually looked easy. I figured that had to be a mistake. I immediately went to the FRAM Fresh Breeze website RIGHT HERE and decided to look at an installation video. Huh, it really *did* look simple. Surely, the people in the step by step instructions had engineering degrees. That would explain it. They said it would take about 15 minutes to install, so I set aside an hour and a half for my own installation process. I’m no fool.

From start to finish it literally took me five and a half minutes. FIVE AND HALF MINUTES! And honestly, the majority of that time was spent cleaning out my glove compartment because that’s how you install the cabin air filter. (So *that’s* where my favorite sunglasses went!)

Unbeknownst to me, there is a little trap door in my glove compartment. You don’t even need two different kinds of screwdrivers to open it or anything. It just pops off kind of like the battery compartment on a remote control. I opened that little trap door, put my filter in, re-organized my glove compartment, and BAM…I was done! It could not have been easier!

But as great as that is, that’s not even the best part. Over the next few weeks, we noticed a big difference in the amount of sneezing we were doing in the car. Nobody came out with red rimmed eyes or a layers of dust all over us as we drove around town. It was amazing!! Even my teenager noticed something was different. And if a teen notices, you know that’s really saying something.

In fact, it was so amazing, I have officially retired my car tissue box! That’s right! It is no longer necessary! Not only is my family traveling easier because they aren’t bombarded with allergens and dust, I have reclaimed that valuable storage space! Hooray!

Would you like to reclaim some storage space and increase the air quality in the cabin of your car? Just CLICK HERE to see which FRAM Fresh Breeze Cabin Air Filter is right for your car. You can purchase the filters at Amazon.com, Walmart, and several other stores. To make things even nicer, FRAM Fresh Breeze is also offering a $3 rebate to help you get started. To download yours, CLICK RIGHT HERE.

Not only that, but FRAM Fresh Breeze Cabin Air Filters is giving away a $100 Visa gift card to one of our awesome readers. All you have to do to enter is leave a comment below! (Entering their giveaway is as easy as installing their cabin air filters!) Yippee!

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I’m crap at installing things too, but am impressed it took you 5 1/2 minutes! Maybe I could do that after all. I’m the only one w/ allergies in my family (knock on wood) and my trusty Nasonex pretty much saves me daily.

First I was afraid I was terrified kept thinking you were going to “get” me with another product but much to my happy surprise this is something I can use! Well, hubs can (that man has sneezing down to an art form!) Must look into this!

I change my own ail filters and always buy the cheapo brand – I guess that’s why we smell another vehicles gunky discharge before we see it – this is what I would use the FRAM Fresh Breeze® filter to help with! Thanks Dose girls!

Isn’t it great when something actually works like its supposed to? You just can’t believe it.
Interesting about the trap door in the glove box. I wonder if I have one, but not enough to pull everything out, I wouldn’t be able to get it back in the right way.

I’ve never lived anywhere like my current neighborhood, where you can actually see the light green pollen dust collect everywhere … on the railings and floorboards of the porch. My daughter gets recurring sinus infections, and I think this might have something to do with it. So I love the idea of anything that will filter the air for her!

I’m grateful to have never really had allergies, which means that I was blindsided when I found out that T has allergies. They’re bad enough to affect her sleep, and now we’re dealing with multiple daily doses of allergy medicine and several failed attempts at nasal rinses. Definitely interested in this product. Thanks for sharing!

I had no idea cabin air filters were even a thing, or that we could change them ourselves! My mind is blown, and now I need these things. Vacuuming is my go-to allergy buster, and my car rarely sees a vacuum.

I NEED this filter. My car is covered in that dusty/pollen-y film both inside and out – my kids and my nose (throat and eyes) will thank you forever for letting me know about these filters. Off to clean out my glovebox…

My son and I both have allergies and living out in the country on dirt roads is the worst. You can not drive anywhere without kicking up the pollen. Genius idea. Not only to stop the the excessive tissue use but the bin to contain the nasty things after, gross. I would love to try this.

I would love to try them because a mouse made a nest inside our van system and even after removing and sterilizing it it still smells and my daughter has sever allergies to it–we can’t run the air or heat at all. We definitely need fresh air in our van!

Wow – this is so very cool. And yes you had me at not being known for your mechanical acumen. So with you on the delay of microwave lightbulb replacement. I only do that kind of thing when there’s no longer any option.
So glad your car is now tissue box free.

I actually learned about the “cabin filter” when I was told I needed to change my air filter, after the scary yellow spring we had (yellow spring so named by me because everything in Houston was covered in pollen so thick you could see it) made such a huge difference! I am just sad I didn’t know about the arm and hammer one(stinky teen dancer feet), but I do now!!!

I’ve suffered from seasonal (and other) allergies my ENTIRE life. I thought I’d tried everything! This is exciting news for me (and my allergy prone son). I have a wadded up roll of tissue sitting next to me right now!

We make sure that our pets are properly groomed often and we vacuum a lot to pick up dirt, dust and of course fur during shedding season which can get all over. We also make sure to change out the air filters and have an air purifier in the bedroom of the person with allergies in my home to keep the air fresh. As for the car, no one wants to breath in outside pollutants so having a clean air filter in your car is important.

I hadn’t even thought about this. It’s important for everyone’s health because in CA you are always in your car. To help reduce allergies I clean and dust, have hardwood floors.
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I guess I don’t really have any tips for reducing allergies for my family, except to close the windows on high pollen days. 🙂 I’d love a filter just for the benefit of having fresher, cleaner air blowing in at us on our car trips around town 🙂

Before this post, I never thought of the air quality in the car. This makes me realize that it is important, so I want to try this to improve the air quality. I want everyone to be the healthiest they can be!